Individuals in less developed economies tend to see more opportunities to start a venture

Did you know?

GEM HAS NOW CONDUCTED OVER 2 MILLION INTERVIEWS IN MORE THAN 100 ECONOMIES

What is GEM?

The Global
Entrepreneurship Monitor is the world's foremost study of entrepreneurship.

Through a vast, centrally coordinated, internationally
executed data collection effort, GEM is able to provide high quality information,
comprehensive reports and interesting stories, which greatly enhance the
understanding of the entrepreneurial phenomenon - but it is more than that. It
is also an ever-growing community of believers in the transformative benefits
of entrepreneurship.

In numbers, GEM is:

16
years of data

200,000+
interviews a year

100+
countries

500+
specialists in entrepreneurship research

300+
academic and research institutions

200+
funding institutions

In each economy, GEM looks at two elements:

The
entrepreneurial behaviour and attitudes of individuals

The
national context and how that impacts entrepreneurship

The information gained, carefully analysed by
local GEM researchers, allows a deep
understanding of the environment for entrepreneurship and provides valuable
insights.

GEM began in 1999 as a joint project between
Babson College (USA) and London Business School (UK). The aim was to consider
why some countries are more 'entrepreneurial' than others. 16 years on, GEM is
the richest resource of information on the subject, publishing a range of
global, national and 'special topic' reports on an annual basis.